Oh! Another neat trick for you to know.
Talking about heat dissipation and heat sinks. If you want to avoid using noisy fans and wasting electricity on them (though a 100mm 12VDC muffin fan doesn't suck all that much juice and nor does it make a terrible noise) pick a heat sink with vertical fins instead.
Yes indeed. Your fat solid sink with a thick plate and up blades (the like of Bart Simpson hairdo) needs air circulation via a fan forced air-flow. It works without fans, but not to total perfection. You still follow me?
The "star like" round heat-sinks will induce a natural convection all on their own. But it is for you to test and decide. I am just telling you the basic principle. Yes, I know. Those are a pain in the a** to implement in a sound and strudy design. I guess we have a laugh here...
But in any event, at least, by using one star shaped heat-sink per LED, you are protected against short-circuits that could happen on a single slab for all.
So long...
Talking about heat dissipation and heat sinks. If you want to avoid using noisy fans and wasting electricity on them (though a 100mm 12VDC muffin fan doesn't suck all that much juice and nor does it make a terrible noise) pick a heat sink with vertical fins instead.
Yes indeed. Your fat solid sink with a thick plate and up blades (the like of Bart Simpson hairdo) needs air circulation via a fan forced air-flow. It works without fans, but not to total perfection. You still follow me?
The "star like" round heat-sinks will induce a natural convection all on their own. But it is for you to test and decide. I am just telling you the basic principle. Yes, I know. Those are a pain in the a** to implement in a sound and strudy design. I guess we have a laugh here...
But in any event, at least, by using one star shaped heat-sink per LED, you are protected against short-circuits that could happen on a single slab for all.
So long...